Well said Nam. Moey, it takes time, and the biggest factor is that you acknowledge that you do have PTSD. You can be diagnosed, and be ignorant, or in denial still that it exists, but these facets will only help you deteriorate slowly, instead of improve, and make it to the other side of your PTSD.
You can read heaps of content here already, and you will see how brutally honest I am about PTSD, and the fact that it will take years for you to come to terms, accept it, learn about it, rid yourself from your trauma, accept your trauma as part of your life, and move with PTSD, instead of against it.
What you think and what you believe are very often two completely different things. The technique to successfully get past the worst of PTSD, is that you need to learn and believe realistically at each and every point your at, and not second guess or think you are at a better point. Again, thinking and believing are very different. The mind is the central processor for PTSD, and it is definately the mind you must tame and control to get back to some sort of normalicy once again.
If your strong, your willing, and you really do want to get past the worst of PTSD, then you need to accept it, embrace it (because its not going anywhere anytime soon) and begin to fight the symptoms you can win first, then tackle the larger issues when a little stronger within yourself. Education and mental preparedness is key to the success of PTSD.
Everyone here can help you get past your own PTSD, whether they know it or not, but you also have to believe in yourself, in your ability, and along with ability comes your limitations, and work hard at yourself, your fears, traumas and emotions to really get a handle on PTSD.
We are here to help you Moey, we are here to just chat with, we are here to advise you, we are here to just listen... regardless what you are after within yourself, we are here for you, and that is the most important part of it all. You have support here, encouragement and people who truly know what you are suffering. Whilst how you got PTSD is different, as everyone's is, the symptoms and end result are the same.
You made the biggest steps already Moey, in that you have been diagnosed, you must accept it to some point because you found this place, which means you are actively looking to improve yourself past the realms of PTSD, to the greener pastures, which do exist. |